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. >> trayvon martin, he was staying, he was there legally. he hadn't broken in or trespassed. he was there legally. he bought skittles and water mel lean or iced tea or whatever. that was his crime. >>> six women, five mothers will decide if zimmerman murdered trayvon martin or acted in self-defense. the jury may consider the lesser charge of manslaughter. that's important for the state and they hammered at the notion the unarmed black teenager was the aggressor. >> why does this defendant get out of the car if he thinks that trayvon martin is a threat to him? why? why? because he's got a gun. he's got the equalizer. he's going to take care of it. he's a want to be cop. >> we begin with martin savidge outside the courthouse in sanford. martin, what a day. highly emotional that closing argument from the prosecutor. i found it gripping to watch, and i have to say, if i was a member of that jury, compelling. >> right. let me point out the closing statement differed from the opening statement. a physical blow when they delivered the string of curse words at the beginning but today
. >> trayvon martin, he was staying, he was there legally. he hadn't broken in or trespassed. he was there legally. he bought skittles and water mel lean or iced tea or whatever. that was his crime. >>> six women, five mothers will decide if zimmerman murdered trayvon martin or acted in self-defense. the jury may consider the lesser charge of manslaughter. that's important for the state and they hammered at the notion the unarmed black teenager was the aggressor. >> why...
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he was profiling trayvon martin. i believe that all of those things are true, and i wouldn't be surprised if the jury thought that was true, but that's really not the issue. the issue is was this case proved beyond a reasonable doubt when focussing on the evidence, and i don't think that it's been. >> i agree. >> let me ask you about the jury itself. we've got six women, five are mothers. to me, when sybrina fulton gave her evidence, that was incredibly powerful and seen her walking out of the courtroom unable to see or hear certain parts of testimony involving her son. that has to hit home with mothers. that has to at some stage hit home. >> as you know, i was part of the o.j. simpson defense team and i sat in front of the simpson family and the goldman family and they were visibly moved every single solitary day. and everyone in that courtroom felt for them but at the end of the day you have to put that aside if you follow the the judge's instructions and most jurors do and focus on the evidence. you feel for the p
he was profiling trayvon martin. i believe that all of those things are true, and i wouldn't be surprised if the jury thought that was true, but that's really not the issue. the issue is was this case proved beyond a reasonable doubt when focussing on the evidence, and i don't think that it's been. >> i agree. >> let me ask you about the jury itself. we've got six women, five are mothers. to me, when sybrina fulton gave her evidence, that was incredibly powerful and seen her walking...
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that trayvon martin was up to no good. and that was what led to his death. >> and that's exactly the point, that this was a teen-ager who had done nothing wrong, was walking through a community he had every right to be in and it went on from there but it was a strong beginning for the prosecution. >> i also thought it was very effective by bernie de la rionda was the way he weaved together all the statements george had given and interviews he'd given to the media, pointing out inconsistencies and suggests that he'd been almost rein reinventing parts of what happened according to the questions he'd been asked. >> this was a luxury provided by the defendant himself because he made so many statements. he'd made a number of them to police. a lot of them were audiotapes, he made videotape reenactments, he'd been on television telling me about what he did. so they took all those words in the trial and used it against him and bernie summed it up again today, only he called those inconsistencies certainly else. he called them lies
that trayvon martin was up to no good. and that was what led to his death. >> and that's exactly the point, that this was a teen-ager who had done nothing wrong, was walking through a community he had every right to be in and it went on from there but it was a strong beginning for the prosecution. >> i also thought it was very effective by bernie de la rionda was the way he weaved together all the statements george had given and interviews he'd given to the media, pointing out...